Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley cut up up in 1972 earlier than formally getting divorced in 1973.

Shortly thereafter, Elvis met and fell in love along with his subsequent long-term girlfriend, Linda Thompson.

The 22-year-old magnificence queen was enamoured by the 37-year-old musical icon, and so they began a passionate relationship that lasted 4 years.

Linda even met and frolicked with Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, however upon considered one of their first conferences, she discovered a tough reality in regards to the King's ex-wife.

The second got here in Las Vegas when the six-year-old attended Linda's party - however let one thing her mom advised her slip out. She revealed Priscilla didn't like Linda in any respect.

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Linda recalled the second in her memoir, "A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between", that Lisa Marie defined the reasoning behind Priscilla's feedback.

"Well," Lisa Marie mentioned. "My mommy says it’s because when she was married to my daddy, he didn’t take her anywhere, but my daddy takes you everywhere."

The teen added: "You are always with my daddy, and my mommy never got to be with my daddy. So that’s why."

Linda wasn't upset by this revelation, nonetheless. Instead, she felt as if she understood how Elvis handled the 2 girls in a different way.

"I knew the situation Lisa had described was quite true,” she recalled, before confirming that she did, indeed, travel everywhere with Elvis.

Still, when Linda and Priscilla eventually met, they were on great terms.

Linda remembered that Elvis asked her to be on her best behaviour when she was due to meet Priscilla.

She did as she was asked, and when the two women met they were "very form and cordial" to 1 one other.

Priscilla finally thanked Linda for being so good and welcoming to Lisa Marie.